WeCar program begins in Corvallis (KMTR) A new program on the Oregon State University campus helps you get away from campus, if that is your destination of choice. Two Hybrid Toyota Prius vehicles are now parked on campus, and available for rent as part of the “WeCar program.” A million bucks to study beer? Count [...]

Physicians and hungry children (Oregonian) The Childhood Hunger Coalition has developed a number of tools to assist physicians and other professionals. An online continuing education course, Childhood Food Insecurity: Health Impacts, Screening and Intervention, is geared to health care providers working with children and their families. The course is sponsored by Oregon Health & Science [...]

Oregon State celebrates spring with Powered by Orange food (LIFE@OSU) As students and faculty return to campus for the beginning of Spring Term, Oregon State’s University Housing and Dining Services will be celebrating by featuring healthy orange items on their menu that both demonstrate the university’s academic strengths in healthy living and show that OSU [...]

Librarians answer reference questions with text messages (Chronicle of Higher Education) Librarians at Oregon State University are giving students and faculty the option of contacting them via text message. (See also Oregonian and Resource Shelf) The hidden life of truffles (Scientific American) James Trappe, a professor with the department of forest science at OSU, co-wrote [...]

How a hurricane wave maker works (Popular Mechanics) To engineer better buildings, researchers at Oregon State University’s Wave Research Laboratory bust walls with waves generated by this artificial tsunami machine. Internet rumor about OSU Coach Craig Robinson is bogus (Oregonian) The latest rumor claims that Oregon State University basketball coach Craig Robinson — President Obama’s [...]

Fruit flies invade Oregon (KGW) Researchers at OSU are racing to stop invasive pests. OSU: E-mail about Robinson is bogus (Gazette-Times) An e-mail about Oregon State University men’s basketball coach Craig Robinson has been circulating the Internet for a few weeks, and it is so persistent that — after initially deciding to ignore it as [...]

West Africans, free markets, and the ’08 food crisis (Voice of America) Laurence Becker from Oregon State University says after gaining independence, African nations tried to help farmers. Governments provided low-cost seeds and fertilizers. They built processing mills and roads to market. Old Mill, new ideas (Bend Bulletin) Ben Nadler and Lauren Cronan are part [...]

OSU rescues entangled sea lion at Sea Lion Caves (Oregonian) An entangled but aggressive sea lion stuck on rocks at the Sea Lion Caves was saved on Thursday by an Oregon State University team. (See also Northwest Cable News, KGW, Gazette-Times and KMTR) Another big marine facility for Newport? (Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon State [...]

Safety issues linger as nuclear reactors shrink in size (New York Times) In America, companies with designs include Westinghouse, the maker of traditional reactors; Babcock & Wilcox, a maker of submarine reactors for the Navy; and NuScale, a start-up that spun out of an Oregon State University research project. OSU restores cleaning contract level (Gazette-Times) [...]

OSU ag school changes to cut cost (Capital Press) Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences is proposing to merge some departments and change its name as part a university-wide strategic alignment initiated last year by Provost Sabah Randhawa. OSU food drive nets record haul (Gazette-Times) With furloughs, budget cuts and layoffs, Oregon State University [...]